THE 75 hardy souls who braved the cold conditions were treated to a flowing game of football as John Folwell picked up an excellent first win as Loughborough Dynamo manager.

Tim Wilkes and Kris Nurse both had near misses before Dynamo took a 12th minute lead. Wilkes‘s flick from a corner was blocked as was Jake Betts’s follow up but he reacted quickest again to poke home.

Minutes later Dynamo created a great chance, Luke Plummer putting in a low cross but it was just out of the incoming players’ reach.

Sheffield began to put passing moves together and Dynamo were pushed onto the defence but apart from some long range efforts they failed to trouble Matt Nurse.

In the 39th minute, against the run of play, Dynamo doubled their lead. Neil Morgan found Kris Nurse, who beat his marker before placing past Leigh Walker.

Within a minute Sheffield had pulled a goal back, Scott Partridge firing in a shot that Matt Nurse tipped over from the resulting corner and bad marking allowed Partridge a free volley home.

With minutes of the half left Danny Jenno hesitated in taking a throw in, the referee appeared to be influenced by the calls from the Sheffield bench and he bizarrely cautioned Jenno for time wasting which haunted Dynamo later in the game.

The game continued to flow from end to end with both sides playing fast passing football. Mick Goddard hit a shot that could have sneaked in at the foot of the post but Matt Nurse was down quickly to block the effort.

At the other end Nurse and Jose Moreira both had efforts that were just off target.

In the 79th minute Sheffield saw a chance go begging when a deflected shot went across the face of am open goal, but nobody reacted fast enough and the ball went for a throw in.

With three minutes left Dynamo’s Jenno broke forward but lost the ball, which he tried to recover, the referee blew for a free kick, cautioned Jenno and showed him the red card having received two yellows.

Sheffield threw everything at Dynamo in the dying minutes, Goddard hitting a shot that Matt Nurse blocked. The ball rebounded to the striker again but Nurse herocially dived to save and seal the points.